ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,854, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Data management systems and methods using explicit private networking techniques" was invented by David Maher (Philadelphia), Pierre Chavanne (Davis, Calif.), Julian Durand (Ladysmith, Canada) and Eric Swenson (Soquel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to, among other things, managing data communicated between systems, services, and/or devices using explicit private networking techniques that provide relatively robust end-to-end security. In some embodiments, explicit private networking techniques may protect data in t...